TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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1 Embracing Villa Maria and St Patrick s Fortitude Valley We are reaching the business end of the football season and interestingly both the NRL and the AFL have a very top heavy ladder with several teams vying for the top four places. Whatever teams make it to the finals, one cannot help but marvel at the skill, enthusiasm, the sheer determination of the athletes who have made it to that level of competition. The same can be said for Usain Bolt who this weekend is jumping from sprinting to playing soccer for the Central Coast Mariners. Not to mention the Sunshine Coast Lightning winning the National Netball League. We won t mention the Wallabies after last weekend s Bledsoe Cup loss to the All Blacks! While all of us can day-dream and imagine standing on a dais collecting a gold medal or winning a grand final, we know in reality that, to be the best in any field, requires sacrifices, focus and unrelenting practice. What is true for top sports men and women is also true for anyone who wants to get the best out of themselves there are rules that have to be followed, real sacrifices that need to be made, discipline incorporated into the timetable of daily life. The simple truth is that if we fail to follow the rules and give ourselves over to whatever makes us feel good we will end up being slaves to our own feelings. In biblical language, that slavery is called hell damning ourselves for what we could have done but did not do, for what we could have had but now do not have. The first five books of the Old Testament are also called the Torah and they contain the laws written down by Moses. The ancient Israelites cherished and revered the Law of God, the Torah. Put simply, they believed that if a person incorporated the laws and regulations handed down to them in the Torah, they would be given the strength and power to pass through life free of this world's seductions, distractions, and diversions and so find their way to God. The problem with the Torah, as with so much of life, is that we can easily slip into a mere external observance of the rules and uncritically incorporate discipline into our routine without understanding its purpose or intention. These are the rules and regulations that are used by others to stifle our potential; these are the disciplines that we quote to choke the possibilities in others. That is why I think that all too often laws are seen from the wrong perspective. They are seen as restricting us rather than liberating us. To be TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Year B Weekend of September 1/2, 2018 sure, they restrict and control our urges, drives and feelings. To be sure, they keep us from doing what we feel like doing when we feel like doing it. But that is not their chief purpose. The chief purpose of law is to free us to be focused, to keep us centred on what we can do in order to live wholesome and healthy lives, not just for ourselves but for the sake of helping and building up others. I know from my own experience that if I am made to follow laws and rules and regulations because I am made to, or just for the sake of following them, then all it does is lead to defiant compliance. And I also know from bitter experience that once defiance enters into the equation I am only a step away from breaking away from discipline, becoming once again a slave to my own self. As we hear in this weekend s Gospel, Jesus faced the scribes and Pharisees who were preoccupied with the enforcing of rules and regulations. They saw only the external letter of the law and lost the vision of its inner spirit. That is probably why Jesus called them hypocrites. It comes to a head when they demand that everyone comply with the letter of the law. What Jesus wants to reinforce to those who will listen is found in the last lines of today s Gospel: He called the people to him again and said, 'Listen to me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that goes into a person from outside can make them unclean; it is the things that come out of a person that make them unclean. For it is from within, from people's hearts, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these things come from within and make a person unclean.' In a modern culture that has become self-indulgent, self-gratifying, and self-justifying the exploits of the top sports men and women remind us of what sacrifice, focus and unrelenting practice can achieve. If owned and incorporated into the timetable of our daily life, the law of God can have the same effect. More than that, once owned, these laws give us freedom and lead us to what we dream we want to be, and for what Jesus Christ died for us to have. Fr Peter Brannelly, Dean Mass Times this week Monday to Friday Saturday Most Reverend Mark Coleridge Archbishop of Brisbane Fr Peter Brannelly; Fr Odinaka Nwadike; Fr Thomas Ismoyo Cathedral Office Telephone: Cathedral cathedral@bne.catholic.net.au 8.00am Chapel; 10.00am Cathedral; 12.30pm Cathedral; 5.10pm Chapel 9.00am Villa Maria; 11.30am Cathedral Sunday Cathedral of St Stephen Saturday 6.00pm (Vigil Mass) Sunday 8.00am; 10.00am (Solemn Mass); 12 noon; 7.30pm St Patrick s, Fortitude Valley Sunday 9.00am; 12 noon Villa Maria, Spring Hill Sunday 9.00am Reconciliation Monday to Friday Saturday am; pm; pm am; pm Exposition Monday to Friday 10.30am 12.15pm Benediction Monday to Friday 12.15pm

2 PLENARYCOUNCILPRAYER Come, Holy Spirit of Pentecost. Come, Holy Spirit of the great South Land. O God, bless and unite all your people in Australia and guide us on the pilgrim way of the Plenary Council. Give us the grace to see your face in one another and to recognise Jesus, our companion on the road. Give us the courage to tell our stories and to speak boldly of your truth. Give us ears to listen humbly to each other and a discerning heart to hear what you are saying. Lead your Church into a hope-filled future, that we may live the joy of the Gospel. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, bread for the journey from age to age. Amen. Our Lady Help of Christians, pray for us. St Mary MacKillop, pray for us. To find out more about the Plenary Council visit their website: where you can find all the information including timelines and how to provide your thoughts about what should be considered. RCIA INFORMATION SESSION If you would like more information on the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) for this year, on Wednesday 5th September, commencing at 6.00pm an information session will be held in the Hanly Room. The car park will be available. To register your interest, contact the Cathedral Office on cathedral@bne.catholic.net.au or phone IN TRANSITION With joy we welcome Halle Parkes who was baptised at the Cathedral on Saturday. Congratulations to Laura Summers & Paul Pizzica and Veronica Figueiredo Pires & Michael McDowell who were married at the Cathedral on Saturday. SOUP DE JOUR With the sweet sound of the All Hallows Clarinet and Flute Ensemble as a backdrop, last Friday our Cathedral St Vincent de Paul Conference hosted the last lunchtime soup for Each week the Victory Hotel has donated the soup and Woolworths the bread rolls and the money raised has gone to support the work of our local Vinnies Conference as they minister to those who have come off second best in life. Thank you to everyone for your generous support, we will be back next year. YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY The Cathedral of St Stephen Young Adult Ministry invite you to celebrate Mass with them on 1st Sunday of every month. The next YAM Mass will be held tonight 7.30pm on Sunday 2nd September. All are welcome to the Mass and to enjoy hospitality and friendship in the Hanly Room following the Mass. Annual Catholic Campaign Next weekend 8/9 September the Annual Catholic Appeal will be held in our parish and all parishioners are invited to support the work of our church. Through your generosity the work of Centacare, the Mary MacKillop Fund, which gives access to Catholic Education to those who would otherwise not be able to afford it, the Holy Spirit Seminary continues to be able to respond to the ever changing needs of our church and community. Your support is very much appreciated. The brochures distributed this weekend in preparation for next weekend s appeal, gives you just a glimpse of some of the good works your generosity makes possible. CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL BRISBANE The next meeting will be held in St Stephen s Chapel on Wednesday 5th September following the 10.00am Mass. Join us for praise and worship in the CBD. For information contact Maureen or Helena Everyone welcome! BRISBANE CITY SOCIAL BRIDGE CLUB The Brisbane City Social Bridge Club (formally the Qld Irish Assoc. Bridge Club) is now located on the lower level of Penola Place in the grounds of St Stephen s Cathedral. Bridge is played on Monday, Wednesday & Thursday from 10am until 1pm. Table Fees of $8.00 for visitors and $7.00 for members apply. For enquiries please contact Beris on or Jan on Visitors are most welcome! LIVE STREAMING A reminder that every Sunday the 10am Solemn Mass is broadcast live via our Archdiocesan YouTube channel archbne.org/bzt. If you can t make it to Mass or you know someone who is housebound, why not invite them to join us via this marvellous technology! Wishing all our fathers and father figures every blessing this weekend.

3 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation 2018 Date: Tuesday, 4 th September 2018 Time: 10.30am - Morning Tea 1am - Lecture on St Bonaventure 12noon - Outdoor Mass (Talk and Mass given by Fr. Paul Rout ofm) Location: ACU Brisbane, Francis Garden (1100 Nudgee Rd, Banyo) A free event with refreshments provided Fr Paul has been teaching Christian Spirituality and Philosophy of Religion at the University of London. He will present on the spiritual theology of St. Bonaventure and its implications for environmental concerns of today. Contact person: Fr. Harry Chan ofm ( harry.chan@acu.edu.au & phone: ) Feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta 2018 Date: Wednesday, 5 th September 2018 Time: 11am Eucharistic Adoration 12noon - Mass + Veneration of Relic (celebrant: Fr. Harry Chan ofm) Location: ACU Brisbane, Holy Spirit Chapel (1100 Nudgee Rd, Banyo) No cost for this event Mother Teresa devoted her whole life helping the poor with love, compassion and dignity. The Missionaries of Charity sisters will be joining us for the Feast Day celebration and they will bring the Relic of Mother Teresa for veneration during Mass. Contact person: Fr. Harry Chan ofm ( harry.chan@acu.edu.au & phone: ) Child Protection Week 2018 Queensland Child Protection Week is held during the first full week of September each year. Schools, businesses, community groups and government organisations come together, to consider how best to promote the value of children and focus attention on issues of child abuse and neglect. Children are a gift from God and must be protected from harm of every kind. Many Archdiocesan personnel through their ministries and services are in a unique position to identify child abuse and neglect and to do something about it. The Archdiocese expects all personnel, including clergy, employees and volunteers to act upon concerns or complaints of abuse, and comply with reporting obligations. Safeguarding is everyone s responsibility. Safeguarding Children And Vulnerable Adults Archdiocesan Prevention and Protection Policy The Archdiocese of Brisbane holds that children, young people and vulnerable adults are a gift from God with an intrinsic right to dignity of life, respect and security from physical and emotional harm. They are to be treasured, nurtured and safeguarded by all. This policy applies to Clergy, Religious, Staff, Parishioners, Volunteers, students on placement and Visitors to our sites.

4 THE ARCHBISHOP OF BRISBANE Brothers and sisters: Peace be with you! TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BRISBANE As we cross another threshold in the long journey of responding to the crisis of sexual abuse in the Church, I want to speak a word to you, a word of hope and encouragement. I speak first to the victims and their families who have suffered most through it all. Especially to those in the Archdiocese of Brisbane who have been traumatised by abuse I offer a most heartfelt apology. I think too of the many fine clergy and religious in the Archdiocese who have been so mired and burdened by what has happened. But there is no-one in the Church who hasn t been wounded in some way by abuse. When one in the community suffers, all suffer. That s the way it is in the Body of Christ; when one part of the body is in pain, the whole body suffers. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia have just published a joint response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. We have accepted, accepted in principle or supported 98 per cent of the Royal Commission s recommendations. As requested by the Royal Commission, we have referred some to the Holy See, and we are pursuing discussions with the Vatican. The one recommendation we cannot accept concerns the seal of the Sacrament of Penance, since to accept it would be contrary to our sense of faith and would corrode religious freedom. We don t believe that abolishing the seal would make children any safer. Nor do we believe that the seal and the safeguarding of children are mutually exclusive; and we ll do all we can to ensure both the safety of children and the inviolability of the seal. In our view, legislation abolishing priest-penitent privilege is based on a lack of understanding of what actually happens in Confession and moves in a purely hypothetical world. It s difficult then to see how the law will work in practice. The bishops and religious leaders have the utmost respect for the rule of law; but we believe that this proposed law will prove impracticable. It will not make children safer and it will undermine religious freedom. That s why it s bad public policy. The response of the bishops and religious leaders has been published with the fourvolume final report of the Truth Justice and Healing Council, which helped shape our response. There are many words, and they are important; but more is required. Now is a time for action. Some of the action is already being undertaken; we aren t beginning from scratch. But much of it lies ahead; and the bishops and religious leaders commit to doing whatever is required. To help us nationally in that task we ve established the lay-led Implementation Advisory Group who have been involved in finalising our response.

5 In the first place, action will be the responsibility of bishops and religious leaders. But it will also involve the entire Catholic community in one way or another. This sense of shared responsibility for building a culture of safeguarding can be troubling for some. It s true that clergy and religious were responsible for most of the abuse in the past, and bishops and religious leaders for most of the cover-ups. Therefore they bear a special burden of responsibility. Currently serving bishops and religious leaders may not be personally responsible for abuse or cover-up, but they have a duty to address the crisis; and they will need to call upon all the members and resources of the Catholic community to do that effectively. The new demands being made of volunteers in parishes and other communities are proving challenging. But we re asking only what we judge necessary for the building of a new culture of safeguarding in the Church. Cultural change of this kind is always demanding. Some of the new provisions are required by law; others are to ensure that the Archdiocese is a genuinely safe place for all, but especially for the most vulnerable. To help build a culture of safeguarding the bishops and religious leaders have established Catholic Professional Standards Limited, an independent lay body which will set nationally consistent safeguarding standards and monitor compliance with them across the Church in Australia. One especially important action will be provision of pastoral care to survivors of abuse and their families. This was the original purpose of the Towards Healing protocol, but it was overtaken by redress payments which tended to obscure its pastoral purpose. Now that the Church has committed to the National Redress Scheme we hope that the financial element can be dealt with elsewhere and that we can focus more on pastoral care for survivors and their families. That s what the Church should do best. Soon the cathedral will have a shrine to St Mary MacKillop in the front turret which is currently the Unity Chapel. In that space there s a candle placed on stone brought from Jerusalem. I intend to make that candle and stone a memorial to the suffering of all those abused and a sign of hope that there is light in the darkness. It will stand in the Chapel of St Mary MacKillop and will be a way of entrusting to her care the abused, their families and all who have suffered because of abuse in the Church. Mary knew the pain of victims and the strength of survivors, which is why we will entrust to her all victims and survivors. The response of the bishops and religious leaders was released on the eve of National Child Protection Week and Fathers Day. We look now to the Father of all mercies to forgive us, to heal the wounds of survivors and to lead us all into the light of Easter. May the light of the Risen Christ shine in the deep dark places until the day dawns and the morning star rises in our hearts (2 Peter 1:19).

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7 Music at the 10.00am Solemn Mass Celebrant: Fr Peter Brannelly ENTRANCE SONG Ps. 86: 3, 5. At the sound of the bell, the Cathedral Choir processes from the Sacristy singing the Introit. The assembly responds as the Choir and Ministers process towards the altar with the following translation of the Introit text. The first verse (which is the Antiphon) is repeated after the third verse. 2 Incline your ear to me, O Lord, Despondent and in need. Sustain me for I trust in you, And save your faithful servant, who 3 Give glory to our loving God, The Father, and the Son, The Holy Spirit equally, The God who rules eternally, For ever Three-in-One. KYRIE Mass VIII CWB 36 GLORIA Mass VIII CWB 41 RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psalm 14:2-5 GOSPEL ACCLAMATION James 1:18 OFFERTORY MOTET O mysterium ineffabile! O caritatis sacramentum admirabile! O ineffable mystery! O admirable sacrament of love! O bonitatis prodigium! O pietatis miraculum! O prodigy of goodness! O miracle of faithfulness! O amor, O pietas, O epularum jucunditas, O convivarum O love, O faithfulness, O joyousness of the feast, felicitas! O felicity of the feasters! Jean-François Lalouette ( ) SANCTUS Mass VIII CWB 70a MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION CWB 12a AGNUS DEI Mass VIII CWB 76 COMMUNION ANTIPHON & PSALM Ps. 70: Domine memorabor iustitiae tuae solius: Deus, docuisti me a iuventute mea, et usque in senectam et sentium, Deus, ne derelinquas me. O Lord, I will be mindful of your justice alone; you have taught me, O God, from my youth; and so, unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not. COMMUNION HYMN Blessed Jesus, at your word CWB 457 ORGAN VOLUNTARY Alla Marcia Henry Coleman ( ) Acknowledgements: Have mercy on me, O my Lord 2005 World Library Publications. ONE LICENSE #A-62361

8 MUSIC AT THE CATHEDRAL The music is drawn from the Catholic Worship Book II for all Masses, available from our Welcomers at the entrances or on the pew seats. The 10:00am Solemn Mass is led by the Cathedral Choir and the 12:00pm Mass is led by the Cathedral Chorale; all other Masses are led by a cantor. 6:00PM 8:00AM 12:00PM 7:30PM Processional CWB 488 CWB 488 CWB 535 Kyrie CWB 4b CWB 4b CWB 25a Gloria CWB 5 CWB 5 CWB 25b First Reading Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8 Responsorial Psalm Ps 14:2-5 Second Reading James 1:17-18, 21-22, 27 Gospel Acclamation James 1:18 Gospel Mark 7:1-8,14-15, Offertory Day by Day How CWB 461 Sanctus CWB 11a CWB 11a CWB 25e Memorial Acclamation CWB 12a Agnus Dei CWB 17a CWB 17a CWB 25k Communion Hymn CWB 457 Ave Verum Boughen CWB 457 CWB 540 & CWB 522 Recessional CWB 489 CWB 489 CWB 458 OFFERTORY MOTET, 12pm Mass St Richard of Chichester Day by day, day by day, O, dear Lord, three things I pray: to see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day. Martin How (1931 ) COMMUNION MOTET, 12pm Mass attr. Pope Innocent VI (d. 1362) Ave, verum corpus natum de Maria Virgine: vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine: cuius latus perforatum unda fluxit aqua et sanguine: esto nobis praegustatum, in mortis examine. O dulcis, O pie, O Jesu, Fili Mariae. Miserere mei. Amen. Hail the true body, born of the Virgin Mary: You who truly suffered and were sacrificed on the cross for the sake of man. From whose pierced flank flowed water and blood: Be a foretaste for us in the trial of death. O sweet, O merciful, O Jesus, Son of Mary. Have mercy on me. Amen. Robert Boughen (1929 ) If you agree, please take time after Mass to sign the petition and if you wish to be kept informed in regards to the new abortion bill.